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California moves to dismantle US's largest death row

Feb 01, 2022 View Original Article
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    -14% Somewhat Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -48% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -59% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "When they affirmed the death penalty, they also affirmed a responsibility ... to actually move that population on death row out and to get them working," he said.
44% : California voters supported the death penalty in 2012 and 2016, though legislative opponents have said they hope to put the issue before voters again in the coming years.
41% : California is merging its condemned inmates into the general prison population with no expectation that any will face execution in the near future.
30% : The Committee on Revision of the Penal Code, an advisory panel to Newsom and lawmakers, in November recommended repealing the death penalty, calling it "beyond repair".

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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